Several of the investments are in companies that use hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, which is passionately opposed by environmentalists.

Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry who inherited a portion of the Heinz family fortune, also reported family trust investments in 56 other companies closely tied to fossil fuels such as petrochemical companies, airlines, car and truck manufacturers along with conventional electric utilities that mainly rely on coal, oil and gas.

The Kerry-Heinz family trusts invested in only four companies involved in alternative renewable energy products or in firms that seek to reduce energy consumption.

The investments contradict Kerry’s public comments only a week ago at a United Nations’ signing ceremony for the new Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which is designed to reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels.

At the ceremony, Kerry promised the 175 nations in attendance, “we will do our part. We will live up to our responsibility to future generations and together, citizens of the world, we will work to save our planet from ourselves.”

However, the Kerry-Heinz investment trusts do not appear to reflect a vision compatible with the Paris Agreement.

Dominating the billion-dollar Kerry-Heinz estate are trust investments in many of the world’s oldest oil companies.

Another trust, the “H.J. Heinz III Marital Trust” invests in Anadarko Petroleum, TOTAL S.A., the French oil giant, Occidental Petroleum and Suncor Energy, the Calgary, Alberta Canadian firm, which explores in Canadian oil sands using fracking.

Three other companies involved in fracking in the Heinz family portfolio included Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas, along with Oklahoma-based Gulfport Energy and the Williams Companies.

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The Obama administration has attempted to curtail fracking by issuing rules on “drilling safety” to be administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, however, has said fracking is safe when done carefully.

A federal judge temporarily blocked implementation of the new BLM rules last year when the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the Western Energy Alliance sued the administration over the rules.

The State Department also blocked the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project to transport oil from Canada’s oil sands to refineries in Illinois, Oklahoma and Texas. Environmentalists claim the Canadian oil produces more carbon emissions than crude produced elsewhere.

In February 2015, to the delight of environmentalists, Obama vetoed a bill designed to permit the construction of the pipeline.

The only alternative car company in the Kerry-Heinz family trusts portfolio is the all-electric luxury car manufactured by Tesla, which received a $465 million government subsidy from the Obama administration and continues to lose $4,000 per vehicle. The firm, however, has received robust pre-sales orders for a new, lower-cost upcoming sedan. Current models range from $70,000 to $100,00.

The Kerry-Heinz trusts also have invested in 10 airline companies, including American Airlines, Delta and United Continental. Among aircraft manufacturers, the trust’s portfolio has invested in the luxury jet manufacturer Lear, Boeing and Lockheed Martin which specializes in aerospace defense.

The sole renewable energy company in the trust’s portfolio is NRG Energy, a solar and wind company whose CEO for 12 years, David Crane, resigned earlier this year due to mounting stockholder dissatisfaction with management of the company.

Also in the “sustainable” category is Aquion Energy which makes batteries that run on salt water and NGEN, a venture capital firm that invests in companies dedicated to sustainable energy consumption.

TheDCNF reached out to several environmental groups, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund and 350.org. None responded to requests for comment.

Myron Ebell, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and the Environment, said he wasn’t surprised that the Kerry-Heinz trusts chose fossil fuel investments.

“They have rational, skilled people on their investments. They’re not going to invest in all that (environmental) stuff because everyone knows those things are not wise investments. They’re risky,” Ebell told TheDCNF.

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